Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are two excellent reasons for the College rule that men on probation shall not compete in intercollegiate athletics, but is does not appear that this prohibition should be extended, as it now it, to intramural sports. In the first instance, the rule acts as a strong incentive to better academic work, and is again justified because athletics often take more time than a man on probation can afford to spare from his studies. To men capable of playing on the major teams the fear of probation is a powerful stimulus; for men debarred on account of their studies...
...first race, for the New England Challenge Cup, Harvard got the better of the start and remained in the lead during the entire race. Columbia and Pennsylvania were unable to row as high a stroke as the second University crew and even when the latter lowered the stroke to 35 at the middle of the course, it continued to gain on the other two boats. At the last half-mile, Harvard was three-quarters of a length and a half. It was a dead heat between Columbia and Pennsylvania for second place. The crew rowed fairly well in this first...
...crew rowed in very good form in the second race. Harvard got the better of the start, but for the first third of the course, Georgetown was almost even with the second University crew. The Wanderers fell steadily behind. At the half distance, Harvard was leading by a few feet and though the crew lowered the stroke from 38 to 36, it gained steadily and finished about three-quarters of a length ahead...
...Freshman lacrosse team was defeated by the Brooklyn Manual Training School on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon by the score of 4 to 2. Brooklyn won through better team-play and a better knowledge of stickwork. Bail and Noble played the best game for the Freshmen, while Jensen excelled for Brooklyn...
...College nine easily defeated Milton Academy at Milton yesterday by a score of 6 to 2. The College nine scored in the first inning and its lead was never threatened. The game was won by better and more timely batting coupled with Milton's many errors. The best batting was done by deWindt, who made a three-base hit and a single in three times at bat, and by Bolton. Bolton was also good in the field, especially in a quick double play in the third inning which checked Milton's first rally...